73.2% of 2020 NECO candidates score credit in English, Maths

A total of 894,101 candidates out of 1,221,447 that sat the 2020 National Examination Council scored credit and above in both English and Mathematics in the just released results.

This represents 73.2 per cent of the total number of candidates that took the examination.

NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma, announced the results in Abuja on Wednesday.

Obioma said that 1,102,041 candidates passed at credit and above level.

He said 894,101 candidates out of the 1,209,992 that sat the examination scored credit and above in English and Mathematics.

Obioma said 33,470 cases of malpractices were recorded during the examination, adding that 12 schools were also involved including 24 supervisors.

He said schools involved in the malpractices would not be allowed to participate in the exam for two years, while 24 supervisors were blacklisted “for various offences ranging from poor supervision to aiding and abetting, connivance with non candidates to write answer on chalkboard and so on.”

“The council has a long standing tradition for zero tolerance for malpractices. Thus, it can be noticed that the malpractices incidence in 2020 dropped compared to the figure of 2019,” Obioma said.

He stated that special arrangements had been made for candidates who missed some of the examinations due to #EndSARS protest.

Such candidates, he added, would have the opportunity to write the tests on February 1, 2021 during the SSCE external examination.

Obioma named some of the states affected as Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Lagos, Edo, Ondo and some centres in Rivers, Abia, Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

A total of 1,221,447 candidates registered for the examination out of which 665,830 were male and 555,617 female.